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Everything posted by Rick_B
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I don't mind a bit of cricket. The problem with the game is that successive governments have been so scared of the power of the Murdoch family that in order to get their support they have allowed it be become a private game for Sky customers only.
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I imagine that there are a very substantial number of headless chickens running around in government circles right now. The problem of course is that Carillion is a very major part of the privatisation and outsourcing program that's been going on under Tory and New Labour Tory governments since the days of Thatcher. If it goes under what happens next? Then there is the little matter of the broken pension fund. If that's allowed to go under too an awful lot of people are going to conclude that they might as well spend their money now, because they could save for a pension all their working lives and still end up with nothing.
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Yep, in a nutshell.
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Not sure who I dislike more, Farage or Blair, but rest assured I dislike them both a lot.
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Yes, but infidel in the world of ISIS means anyone who doesn't believe in their twisted idea of Caliphate as the goal of Islam. That includes Muslims as much as anyone else - they believe that we should all die if we don't agree with and support their ideology.
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Not the point. This has come up before. Here we have a new member taking the remit of CC right from the early days - "The place to name the Cunts of the World!!!" and perhaps getting it a little bit wrong as I'm sure most of us have done from time to time, immediately being pounced on with abusive comments by a self-appointed clique who think they somehow own the right to post on the corner. If existing members, especially on The Open Corner, choose to abuse each other so be it. Sometimes its funny, other times it's just repetitive and tedious, but that doesn't mean you have a right to gang up and declare open season on anyone who dares to join the forum and make a post. Clear enough?
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10. Give time to for nominations to be discussed. Posts which attempt immediately to derail a thread either by attacking the poster or the nomination will be removed.
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Could this be even possibly true? Well the past is a strange place so lets leave it be for the time being. You wont ever get the idea that this means I fell off the nearest tree though will you old chap?
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Irrelevant OT rubbish removed. Regarding cheese with fruit I'm not a big fan, although Wensleydale with cranberries works.
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I didn't know they still made that stuff. A sort of alcoholic Tizer if I remember rightly
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He should certainly have some sort of recognition for his achievements. Reducing the Lib-Dem MPs from 57 to 8 in one term, thus wiping out many years of progress under Paddy Ashdown and Charles Kennedy, is pretty impressive.
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http://www.shrinkpictures.com/
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Well that's the thing, nobody at the time did think it odd. More innocent days I guess.
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Seems like a pointless gesture to me. In any case British passports were never that colour.
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Princess Michael of Kent , not to be confused with The Duchess of Kent, was always one of the less delightful members of The Royal Family. Apparently she had no idea it might be offensive. Right.
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Because his parents names him Alan.
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Well why not? My avatar and the one I own is the earlier cheaper version, a Vintage AV6HGW. The Corona GW started out as a custom guitar hand-built for Geoff in Trev Wilkinson's UK workshop and was finished in light blue. Two were made at the time and I had the chance of buying the other one, but it was just too expensive for me to justify it.
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There is more to having a powerful voice than just being loud, something Simon Cowell's horrible cruise ship singers don't understand. Many of the songs he wrote were quite unusual, especially for the time. The standard format for a pop song is a combination of verse, chorus and middle eight, maybe with a guitar solo somewhere. He didn't use that format much, often his songs started out quiet and low and slowly built up in both pitch and volume into a crescendo.
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I might form a Geoff Whitehorn tribute act. I've been told I sound like him, but that's no surprise as I've spent years nicking his riffs and met him on many occasions.
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Absolute bollox, he had a phenomenal voice and an incredible range. There was nothing weak or warbly about it. His songs above all else expressed sadness, heartbreak and loneliness like no other. In dreams is the ultimate breakup song
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Some of them are very good, some are dreadful. Oddly many of the best Beatles tribute bands are American. This lot for example, all the right guitars and drums, passable Liverpool accents if you don't listen too closely and they sound like the Beatles. It's about as close as you'll come to hearing the Beatles live, probably better in fact because you can actually hear them minus the screaming. They do seem to be playing live. I can spot miming a mile off. The only thing I suspect is fake are the big Vox amps, which I think are just for show, nothing appears to be plugged into them and they don't seem to be miked up.